Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

Long regarded as one of the longest-living pets you could ever own, turtles surprise many pet owners with how long they can live. Whether you have a red eared slider or a map turtle, these reptiles ...

Foreword / J. Whitfield Gibbons -- Systematics, taxonomy, and geographic distribution of the snapping turtles, family Chelydridae / Carl H. Ernst -- History of fossil Chelydridae / J. Howard Hutchison ...